UML Contracts in England

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for UML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UML over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 406 433
Rank change year-on-year +54 +27 -94
Contract jobs citing UML 194 267 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.53% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.59% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 142 280
10th Percentile £463 £406 £425
25th Percentile £500 £464 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.93% -3.86% -
75th Percentile £844 £638 £675
90th Percentile £925 £750 £764
UK median daily rate £638 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +18.06% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 53 43
10th Percentile £54.95 £47.90 £43.63
25th Percentile £56.56 £52.50 £48.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £83.75 £74.85 £65.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

UML is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing UML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for UML in England

UML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UML in England.

Daily rate trend for UML in England

UML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UML in England

UML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UML in England.

Hourly rate trend for UML in England

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UML in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UML in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +103 91 £800 +45.45% 22
South East +9 48 £500 +5.26% 15
South West +11 25 £550 -11.82% 30
Midlands +35 13 £360 -38.98% 15
East of England -14 13 £550 -8.33% 10
West Midlands +24 8 £500 -15.25% 11
North West +26 5 £500 +11.11% 9
North of England +25 5 £500 -2.44% 10
East Midlands - 5 £345 - 4
UML
UK

UML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (13.92%) Confluence
2 15 (7.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) JBoss
Applications
1 24 (12.37%) MS Visio
2 11 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (4.64%) Simulink
4 5 (2.58%) Stateflow
4 5 (2.58%) TargetLink
5 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.52%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 31 (15.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (4.64%) Loan IQ
3 6 (3.09%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.52%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.52%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (7.73%) Azure
2 13 (6.70%) AWS
3 9 (4.64%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.55%) Lucidchart
5 2 (1.03%) SaaS
6 1 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.52%) GCP
6 1 (0.52%) IaaS
6 1 (0.52%) OCI
6 1 (0.52%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.52%) PaaS
6 1 (0.52%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.52%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.73%) SNMP
1 15 (7.73%) Software-Defined Radio
2 11 (5.67%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (2.58%) WAN
4 2 (1.03%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.52%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.52%) Intranet
5 1 (0.52%) IPsec
5 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.52%) MQTT
5 1 (0.52%) NFC
5 1 (0.52%) PPP
5 1 (0.52%) RS-232
5 1 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (23.71%) NoSQL
2 43 (22.16%) Data Vault
2 43 (22.16%) Metadata
3 29 (14.95%) Metadata Repository
4 13 (6.70%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.64%) Power BI
6 8 (4.12%) Pentaho
6 8 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (4.12%) Qlik Sense
6 8 (4.12%) QlikView
6 8 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (16.49%) Git
2 31 (15.98%) JIRA
3 21 (10.82%) Bitbucket
4 18 (9.28%) Rational DOORS
5 17 (8.76%) Eclipse
5 17 (8.76%) Rational Rhapsody
6 15 (7.73%) GoogleTest
7 14 (7.22%) Robot Framework
8 11 (5.67%) TeamCity
9 6 (3.09%) Jenkins
10 5 (2.58%) Subversion
11 4 (2.06%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.52%) Gradle
12 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.52%) JMeter
12 1 (0.52%) JUnit
12 1 (0.52%) LabVIEW
12 1 (0.52%) MagicDraw
12 1 (0.52%) Maven
12 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 49 (25.26%) Finance
2 34 (17.53%) Electronics
3 29 (14.95%) Marketing
4 27 (13.92%) Public Sector
5 23 (11.86%) Social Skills
6 22 (11.34%) Telecoms
7 21 (10.82%) Manufacturing
8 17 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (7.22%) Publishing
10 13 (6.70%) Aerospace
11 11 (5.67%) Front Office
12 9 (4.64%) Financial Institution
12 9 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (3.09%) Automotive
13 6 (3.09%) Banking
13 6 (3.09%) Billing
13 6 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (2.06%) Legal
15 3 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 65 (33.51%) Architect
2 41 (21.13%) Data Architect
3 38 (19.59%) Software Engineer
4 34 (17.53%) Business Analyst
5 25 (12.89%) Analyst
6 24 (12.37%) Chief Architect
6 24 (12.37%) Chief Data Architect
7 22 (11.34%) Senior
8 19 (9.79%) Developer
9 18 (9.28%) Systems Engineer
10 14 (7.22%) C++ Software Engineer
10 14 (7.22%) Embedded Engineer
10 14 (7.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 12 (6.19%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 11 (5.67%) Ada Engineer
12 11 (5.67%) Ada Software Engineer
12 11 (5.67%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
12 11 (5.67%) Front Office Business Analyst
13 10 (5.15%) Head of Architecture
13 10 (5.15%) Head of Data Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.79%) XML
2 16 (8.25%) CSS
2 16 (8.25%) HTML
3 12 (6.19%) Web Services
4 11 (5.67%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (4.64%) .NET
6 8 (4.12%) Apache Camel
7 7 (3.61%) JSON
8 6 (3.09%) REST
9 5 (2.58%) Blazor
10 4 (2.06%) SOAP
11 3 (1.55%) .NET Core
11 3 (1.55%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.55%) Razor View Engine
11 3 (1.55%) RESTful
12 2 (1.03%) ASP.NET MVC
12 2 (1.03%) Node.js
12 2 (1.03%) React
12 2 (1.03%) WCF
12 2 (1.03%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.56%) Reference Data
2 12 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.67%) Derivative
3 11 (5.67%) Fixed Income
4 8 (4.12%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.58%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.55%) Device Driver
7 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.03%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.03%) NHS
7 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.03%) Robotics
8 1 (0.52%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.52%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.56%) Windows
2 33 (17.01%) Linux
3 20 (10.31%) Unix
4 4 (2.06%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.03%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.52%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (38.66%) Data Modelling
2 55 (28.35%) Software Engineering
3 50 (25.77%) Agile
4 45 (23.20%) Data Architecture
5 39 (20.10%) Validation
6 36 (18.56%) SysML
7 33 (17.01%) Systems Engineering
8 30 (15.46%) Data Integration
9 29 (14.95%) Data Design
10 28 (14.43%) Verification and Validation
11 27 (13.92%) Scrum
12 26 (13.40%) Business Intelligence
13 25 (12.89%) Data Governance
14 24 (12.37%) Data Strategy
15 23 (11.86%) Business Strategy
15 23 (11.86%) Enterprise Architecture
16 22 (11.34%) ArchiMate
16 22 (11.34%) Risk Management
17 21 (10.82%) Digital Marketing
17 21 (10.82%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.04%) SQL
2 31 (15.98%) C++
3 25 (12.89%) C
4 24 (12.37%) Java
5 21 (10.82%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.73%) C#
7 13 (6.70%) Ada
8 11 (5.67%) Python
9 8 (4.12%) MATLAB
9 8 (4.12%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.58%) Perl
11 4 (2.06%) Bash
12 2 (1.03%) Ada 95
12 2 (1.03%) C++/CLI
12 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.52%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 61 (31.44%) Security Cleared
2 51 (26.29%) SC Cleared
3 44 (22.68%) Degree
4 21 (10.82%) Master's Degree
5 9 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.12%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.03%) CBAP
8 2 (1.03%) IIBA
8 2 (1.03%) ISEB
9 1 (0.52%) APMP
9 1 (0.52%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.22%) QA
2 10 (5.15%) MISRA
3 8 (4.12%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.61%) Dodd-Frank
4 7 (3.61%) EMIR
4 7 (3.61%) MiFID
4 7 (3.61%) MISRA C
5 5 (2.58%) AUTOSAR
5 5 (2.58%) ISO 26262
5 5 (2.58%) NCSC
6 4 (2.06%) DO-178B
7 3 (1.55%) Def Stans
7 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.03%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.52%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (11.86%) Firmware
2 2 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.52%) Kibana
1 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 34 (17.53%) Sparx
2 23 (11.86%) SAP
3 22 (11.34%) IBM
4 15 (7.73%) Atlassian
4 15 (7.73%) Google
5 14 (7.22%) Microsoft
6 13 (6.70%) Oracle
7 12 (6.19%) ION Trading
8 11 (5.67%) Bloomberg
8 11 (5.67%) MarketAxess
8 11 (5.67%) Tradeweb
9 8 (4.12%) Informatica
9 8 (4.12%) ServiceNow
10 6 (3.09%) BiZZdesign
10 6 (3.09%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.52%) Charles River
11 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.52%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.52%) Twitter